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Caption:
Pensacola, Fla. (Mar. 17, 2004) -- USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67) arrives
at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla., for a four-day port visit after
completing a Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMTUEX) in the Gulf of
Mexico. COMPTUEX is an intermediate level exercise designed to forge
the strike group into a cohesive fighting team and is a critical step
in pre-deployment training. During COMPTUEX, more than a dozen ships,
and Carrier Air Wing Seventeen (CVW-17) embarked on Kennedy, conducted
war game exercises using training ranges along the East Coast of the
U.S. and the Gulf of Mexico. The exercise took advantage of existing
ranges under the Navy's comprehensive Training Resource Strategy
(TRS). These ranges offer training facilities and realistic
simulations, better preparing U.S. Navy ships and Sailors to
participate in the Global War on Terrorism. U.S. Navy photo by Patrick
Nichols. (RELEASED)
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